Geospatial Information for Disease Prevention and Control. INSPIRE Conference 2013

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1 Geospatial Information for Disease Prevention and Control Dr. Virginia Estevez, Senior Expert GIS Florence, 25 th June 2013

2 ECDC overview ECDC The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), is the European Union agency with the responsibility of strengthening EU defences against infectious diseases. ECDC's mission: To identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases. To support and help to coordinate EU countries preparedness and response capacities.

3 GIS (Core Function at ECDC) Middle term assessments Monitoring trends Early warning functions Health threats Preparedness Outbreak assessment Field epidemiology Responses Environmental /socio-economic data Inputs scientific network Multidisciplinary approach Surveillance Epidemic Intelligence Response Scientific Advice / Disease Specific Programs

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8 GIS infrastructure at ECDC Enterprise GIS ECDC had a GIS departmental structure that served the needs of the particular sections/teams, instead of the entire organization as an entity; This GIS solution did not allow to get access to timely, accurate & guaranteed geospatial information.

9 ECDC Mapping & Multilayer Analysis (EMMA) Started in May 2011; Took over the recommendations included in the GIS Needs Assessment report (June 2010); Was planned as a centralized GIS platform to support disease mapping, data analysis & data sharing among ECDC experts & to extranet public, which will facilitate the communication on public health threats; This system will contribute to the compilation of standardized spatial data; Its implementation will be supported by the establishment of internal SOPs.

10 ECDC Mapping & Multilayer Analysis (EMMA) System Architecture GO MAPPING! Business applications Desktop Applications Front end Maps Geocodification Geospatial data Geodata ArcGIS Server Web Services Back end

11 EMMA Technology SharePoint 2010 ArcGIS for SharePoint ArcGIS Server ArcSDE + Microsoft SQL Server

12 E3 Geoportal INSPIRE compliant for metadata Search & discovery of resources; Retrieval & visualization of results; Previsualization datasets Metadata visualization; Creation & upload of metadata; Identity of the project; Data download; User registration. Source:

13 ECDC and Inspire regulation Data available: Human health and safety Health Data (disease) Health Determinants (environmental) Metadata: In process of implementation Just E3 Geoportal is INSPIRE compliant for metadata Pending: Data Specification Network Services Data Services & Sharing Monitoring and reporting

14 Open questions On which aspects organizations such as ECDC must be fully compliant with INSPIRE directive? In which situations we need to comply with INSPIRE directive?, only for public available data? Is there any kind of external assessment for the implementation of INSPIRE directive?

15 Dr. Virginia Estevez